Cultures of Masculinity

Edwards, Tim

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“…Men's bodies is an under researched area in sociology (Robertson, 2006a;Edwards, 2006), and scholars have largely ignored the ageing bodies (Slevin, 2010). Studies that have theorized older men and masculinity are also rare (Calasanti and King, 2005;Calasanti, 2004), and most research on bodies has been carried out on women (Tager et al, 2006) or adolescents and young adults of both sexes (Drummond, 2012;Clarke and Korotchenko, 2011).…”

Section: 'It Is Passable I Suppose' -Adult Norwegian Men's Notions Omentioning

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“…In earlier times labouring and mechanical work was defined as masculine through its relationship with the male body, requiring or developing musculature and strength, and adding other bodily markers (Edwards, 2006). The focus on the appearance of the male body might therefore be in conflict with the earlier mentioned expectations of men in relation to traditional masculinities.…”

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“…The body is an obvious signifier of social class, gender, race and age (Edwards, 2006), but most research on masculinity and men's health has ignored age relations and the impact age has on the way men do gender (Calasanti et al, 2013), and most studies on aging have either ignored gender or focused on women's aging (Hearn, 1995;Calasanti, 2004;Pietilä and Ojala, 2011). To the best of our knowledge, most research on men's bodies has similarly ignored the intersection of age and masculinities.…”

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“…Ricciardelli and White (2011) argue that men have become subject to the same appearance-based cultural imperatives that women have been subjected to for decades. They illustrate this by pointing out that an increasing number of men undergo cosmetic surgery (Ricciardelli and White, 2011).In earlier times labouring and mechanical work was defined as masculine through its relationship with the male body, requiring or developing musculature and strength, and adding other bodily markers (Edwards, 2006). The focus on the appearance of the male body 3 might therefore be in conflict with the earlier mentioned expectations of men in relation to traditional masculinities.…”

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‘It is passable, I suppose’ – Adult Norwegian men’s notions of their own bodies

Hervik¹,

Fasting

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.sage.com: http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/1012690214557709 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how men aged 40-90 years with different educational and ethnic backgrounds talk about their own bodies, and how social dimensions, especially masculinity and age, are reflected in their talk. Eighteen men from a small rural town in Norway were interviewed. The findings indicate that the men have a complex relationship to their own bodies. Three main themes were found in the way they talked about their own bodies; functionality in relation to their everyday life and in relation to sport and physical activity; physical and mental health; appearance both in relation to how their bodies were perceived by others and in relation to their own perception of their body.The three themes were not mutually exclusive and were often interwoven in terms of how they were talked about. The results are discussed in relation to theories of masculinity with a focus on Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity. One of the conclusions that can be drawn from the project is that the men expressed their relationships with their bodies in conflicting and complex ways, including concerns which can be interpreted as gendered and age-related. 'It is passable, I suppose' -Adult Norwegian men's notions of their own bodiesMen's bodies is an under researched area in sociology (Robertson, 2006a;Edwards, 2006), and scholars have largely ignored the ageing bodies (Slevin, 2010). Studies that have theorized older men and masculinity are also rare (Calasanti and King, 2005;Calasanti, 2004), and most research on bodies has been carried out on women (Tager et al., 2006) or adolescents and young adults of both sexes (Drummond, 2012;Clarke and Korotchenko, 2011). Loland (1999: 300) called for more sensitivity of 'the issues of complexity and specificity' when studying men, men's bodies and masculinity, and Calasanti and King (2005) stressed the importance of more knowledge on the complexity of age and masculinity. This paper therefore aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity in middle-aged and elderly men's notions of their own bodies. Accordingly, this paper focuses on how middle-aged and elderly men talk about their bodies in relation to ageing and masculinities.Existing theory and research seem to establish that men who embody traditional masculinity are supposedly unconcerned with their appearance, and would rather desire a well-functioning body for sports, work and everyday life (Jackson and Lyons, 2012). A study from Finland and the USA shows that how a body functions is what matters for men, and, moreover, that they relate the body's functionality to health. Any other focus on the body, such as attractiveness, struck the men as femini...

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“…36 The valorisation of reason and rationality in the eighteenth century Enlightenment is decisive to the formation of invader/settler masculinities: 'Reason and feeling were separated and masculinity came to be associated with the objective, the practical, the scientific and the technological'. 37 Colonisation, thus, brought with it the productive and repressive nature of nineteenth century bourgeois orthodoxy, stoicism and clearly demarcated gender divisions determined by heteronormativity.…”

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